July 19, 2022
Host your next virtual meeting at Kyle Field! Or maybe on a patio at the Innovative Classroom Building!
Two custom templates for ‘Together’ mode are now available in the Texas A&M instance of Microsoft Teams. They can be found by starting Together mode and then selecting the desired template. Please note that the template will then be used for everyone in the meeting.
Microsoft developed Together mode during the pandemic to combat virtual meeting fatigue. Many brainwave studies, most notably one by Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, show such fatigue is caused by sustained concentration, lack of nonverbal cues, constant eye contact and other psychological factors. Together mode basically tricks the brain by simulating a more realistic gathering in a shared background like a coffeehouse or auditorium. Microsoft’s Human Factors Labs showed Teams decreased meeting fatigue in brian scans.